LEADER 04059nam 2200625Ia 450 001 996247907903316 005 20210618215647.0 010 $a1-282-36043-4 010 $a9786612360435 010 $a0-520-94140-3 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520941403 035 $a(CKB)1000000000396363 035 $a(EBL)470948 035 $a(OCoLC)609850090 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000083953 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11126045 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000083953 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10163881 035 $a(PQKB)11505256 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470948 035 $a(DE-B1597)519997 035 $a(OCoLC)85828927 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520941403 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL470948 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10675709 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL236043 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000396363 100 $a20050127d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCinderella's sisters$b[electronic resource] $ea revisionist history of footbinding /$fDorothy Ko 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. $cUniversity of California Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (383 p.) 300 $a"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--1st printed p. 311 0 $a0-520-25390-6 311 0 $a0-520-21884-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-320) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tILLUSTRATIONS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tNOTES ON CONVENTIONS --$tDYNASTIES AND PERIODS --$tABBREVIATIONS --$tINTRODUCTION --$t1. GIGANTIC HISTORIES OF THE NATION IN THE GLOBE --$t2. THE BODY INSIDE OUT --$t3. THE BOUND FOOT AS ANTIQUE --$t4. FROM ANCIENT TEXTS TO CURRENT CUSTOMS --$t5. THE EROTICS OF PLACE --$t6. CINDERELLA'S DREAMS --$tEPILOGUE --$tNOTES --$tGLOSSARY --$tWORKS CITED --$tINDEX 330 $aThe history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of China's medieval court and spread to gentry families, brothels, maid's quarters, and peasant households. Conventional views of footbinding as patriarchal oppression often neglect its complex history and the incentives of the women involved. This revisionist history, elegantly written and meticulously researched, presents a fascinating new picture of the practice from its beginnings in the tenth century to its demise in the twentieth century. Neither condemning nor defending foot-binding, Dorothy Ko debunks many myths and misconceptions about its origins, development, and eventual end, exploring in the process the entanglements of male power and female desires during the practice's thousand-year history. Cinderella's Sisters argues that rather than stemming from sexual perversion, men's desire for bound feet was connected to larger concerns such as cultural nostalgia, regional rivalries, and claims of male privilege. Nor were women hapless victims, the author contends. Ko describes how women-those who could afford it-bound their own and their daughters' feet to signal their high status and self-respect. Femininity, like the binding of feet, was associated with bodily labor and domestic work, and properly bound feet and beautifully made shoes both required exquisite skills and technical knowledge passed from generation to generation. Throughout her narrative, Ko deftly wields methods of social history, literary criticism, material culture studies, and the history of the body and fashion to illustrate how a practice that began as embodied lyricism-as a way to live as the poets imagined-ended up being an exercise in excess and folly. 517 3 $aRevisionist history of footbinding 606 $aFootbinding$zChina 606 $aFoot$xSocial aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFootbinding 615 0$aFoot$xSocial aspects. 676 $a391.4/13/0951 700 $aKo$b Dorothy$f1957-$0638570 801 0$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996247907903316 996 $aCinderella's sisters$91548035 997 $aUNISA